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JWST Finds the Smallest Asteroids Ever Seen in the Main Belt


was never intended to find asteroids. It was built to probe some of our deepest, most demanding questions about the cosmos: how the first stars formed, how galaxies have evolved, how planets like ours take shape, and even how life originated.

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